Cornerstone laid July 4, 1848. Construction stopped in 1854 when the Know-Nothings took umbrage with the Pope's sending of a block to be installed on the inside and seized control of the society running the project. The Know-Nothings managed to add 13 courses that were of such poor quality that they were removed when construction restarted in earnest in 1879.

The gap caused by the Know-Nothings is the reason why there's a visible color change 1/3 of the way up.

We're long overdue for Vampires on waterskis. In leather jackets. Jumping over sharks.And zombies can drive the boat.

This. I'm a long time horror fan. I learned to read with Goosebumps in 1st grade followed very shortly by Stephen King, Ambrose Bierce and other horror writers. And even I'm sick of vampires and zombies.

Now for werewolf movies...can we have one or three that don't SUCK?

Ugly people have sex all the time. We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion humans if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

I think they went full retard on this one. But i will watch it for sure, though crazy it could be wildly entertaining

Edit: BTW if we are talking about ridiculous movies with extremely silly plots, what do you think about Iron sky?

paulWTAMU wrote:

We're long overdue for Vampires on waterskis. In leather jackets. Jumping over sharks.And zombies can drive the boat.

This. I'm a long time horror fan. I learned to read with Goosebumps in 1st grade followed very shortly by Stephen King, Ambrose Bierce and other horror writers. And even I'm sick of vampires and zombies.

Now for werewolf movies...can we have one or three that don't SUCK?

Wasn't there one with Benicio DelTorro and Anthony Hopkins? If they didn't pull it through idk who will. I personally liked it, critics, not so much.

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I've listened to the audio CDs during my long commutes.I thought is was going to suck (no pun intended), but was quickly pulled into that fictitious version of history.It was quite entertaining. Definitely made my commutes more bearable. Hopefully the movie will be close to the book/audio book.

So, seeing this thread again and reading the praise for the source material... As someone unfamiliar with the books, is there any chance there's some elaborate metaphor going on here, where southern privilege is the infection that threatens to spread, infecting and enslaving their fellow men? That Lincoln, in other words, is fighting the Confederate Zombie States?

However, the actual definition of "few" is more than one but less than many (2 ≤ "few" < "many"). Therefore, for something to have been out more than a few years, that would mean that it was out for three years or more.

I typically use "a couple" when I mean approximately two and "a few" when I mean three to four. After that, we're at "several."

UberGerbil wrote:So, seeing this thread again and reading the praise for the source material... As someone unfamiliar with the books, is there any chance there's some elaborate metaphor going on here, where southern privilege is the infection that threatens to spread, infecting and enslaving their fellow men? That Lincoln, in other words, is fighting the Confederate Zombie States?